I agree. Beyond the romance bugs making him seem like a skeezy incel, his backstory is some Mary Sue shit and he has a tendency to jump on morally dubious power grabs at the slightest opportunity. (See: book in apothecary basement, Raphael, personal quest events in Act 3). He made a good first impression but he might stay in the wall on my next playthrough.

You do get locked out of traveling back to Act 1 areas some time in Act 2. I think once you enter the Temple of Shar?

I wanted to go back for another crack at the forge and I couldn’t.